One Spark

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In the wake of One Spark 2014, festival organizers announced Monday a partnership with two organizations designed to help the creators involved in the five-day event.

The Foundation Center and the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida are joining forces with One Spark.

The Foundation Center is an organization dedicated to developing philanthropic enterprises. Officials with One Spark said Monday that alliance with the center is designed to promote new funding sources for nonprofit organizations associated with One Spark. That means more education and training resources for nonprofit organizations.

The center also helps to incubate new concepts for social organizations and those resources will be available to organizations associated with One Spark both in Jacksonville and in Berlin, site of the festival’s expansion in September.

The Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida is similar, but is more local and will focus on over 100 nonprofit creators who had exhibits at this year’s One Spark festival. The event, drawing an estimated 260,000 people to downtown Jacksonville, wrapped up Sunday afternoon.

“The Nonprofit Center’s mission is to connect, strengthen and advocate for nonprofits. It’s natural for us to offer support for membership, technical assistance to One Spark nonprofits,” said Rena Coughlin, CEO of the center in North Florida.